row

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a continuous chronological succession without an interruption

   they won the championship three years in a row

2. 2
   noun

   an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line

   a row of chairs

3. 3
   noun

   a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally)

   a mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds

4. 4
   verb

   propel with oars

   row the boat across the lake

5. 5
   noun

   A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.

   And there were windows in three rows.

6. 6
   noun

   Clipping of cornrow.

   Vyreen had just finished braiding my hair, and his call had caught me coming out of her crib with my 'rows looking tight.

7. 7
   verb

   To transport in a boat propelled with oars.

   to row the captain ashore in his barge

8. 8
   verb

   To be moved by oars.

   The boat rows easily.

Etymology

From Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English rōwan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder. Related to Russia.